EVGA B360 Micro Gaming (112-CS-E365)
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USB 2.0 standard is 500mA @ 5V per port (header total is 1000mA) for
unpowered devices. If your USB device requires more power than this, it is
recommended to attach a powered USB Hub.
19. Front Panel Connectors
The Front panel connectors are the four main chassis connections. These
include the Power Switch, Power LED, Reset Switch, and HDD LED. The
Power and Reset switches are both designed to use “Momentary Switches,”
rather than “Latching Switches,” which means the connection between the two
posts needs to be made just briefly for it to work, as opposed to being held in
place. This is why the Power and Reset switches can be triggered with a screw
driver by simultaneously touching the + and - posts.
Power LED will power on with the system, indicating the system is on and can
blink with CPU activity.
HDD LED will blink during access to the SATA ports. M.2 SSDs will also
activate this LED.
20. Rear Panel Connectors (Figure 2)
This is the section referred to as the I/O Hub. This panel contains the
hardwired USB, Sound, and Ethernet connections. Please see Page 11 for a
component level breakdown.
* There are two numeric references for PCIe: one is mechanical, which is the actual slot-
length footprint, and the second is electrical, which is a reference of how many PCIe
lanes are routed to the slot.
Because PCI Express is designed to be a universal architecture, you can install x1 cards,
such as sound cards or USB controllers into an x16 slot. Many types of cards can use
different amounts of PCIe lanes, while some applications use only certain parts of a
card, such as compute apps that allow a card to run off a single PCIe lane. This is why
there are x16 mechanical slots with an x1 electrical PCIe lane. Using the entire length of
a PCIe slot is unnecessary, nor does it cause an adverse effect to use a shorter form-
factor bus card in a slot that physically can hold a larger form-factor bus card.
